Container for music rolls and the like



Mar. l13, 1923.

c.s.'umoN. CONTAINER FOR MUSIC ROLLS AND THE LIKE.

2 SHEETS-SHEET- 2- fILED SEPT. I 9, 192i.

Patented Mar. i3, 1923.

CHARLES S. BURTON, OF OAK FAB/K, ILIJINIS.

CNTAINER FOR MUSIC ROLLS'AND TI-I LIKE.

Application filed September 19, 1921. Serial No. 501,698.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns S. BURTON, a citizen of the United States, having'residence in Oak Park, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers for Music Rolls and the like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved construction of tubular container for music rolls and the like having a telescoping closure. It consists in the elevments and features of construction shown and described, as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a lon 'tudinal vertical section of a container embodying this invention, a

- music roll being shown in dotted line in position therein.

Figure y2 is a similar view showing the closure withdrawn and at position for permitting the withdrawal or insertion of the roll.

Figure 3 is a section at the line', 3-3, on Figure 2.

Figure Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a dissected view in the nature of a section of the bottom portion of the device at the same plane as Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a detail edge view of fabric strip which forms the hinge and check and pull-lug, he closure being shown in dott-ed line in its relation to the fabric strip.

The structure shown in the drawings coinprises a tubular box member, 1, having one en d closed and the other end open, and adapted to be closed by a telesco-ping closure, 2, said telescoping closure has one end closed and the top and the yother end open, as clearly seen in Figures 1 and 2. The closure is provided with means for catching or locking it in closed position. For this purpose the bottom side of the tubular box member, 1, and the bottom side of the closure, 2, being provided'with an aperture, preferably substantially circular, as seen at 1a, and 2, respectively, for engagement by a boss or button, 4a, which is formed or secured at the free end of the spring catch member, 4. Said spring'catch member is a simple strip of thin sheet metal, preferably having the boss or button formed by stamping it out 4 is a section at the line, 4.-4, on

from the metal as clearly seen in Figure 2,

this thin strip being secured to the bottom side of the closure member, 2, by havin-g the end opposite that which has the button' or boss, da, clinched around the inner edge of the bottom of the closure, as seen in Figures 1 and 2. This spring catch is utilized also for engaging the flange of the roll to with-` draw it in the withdrawal 'of the clos-ure to a position where it may be readily seized byv the hand of the operator for complete withdrawal. The means for such engagement and withdrawal consists of an upraise, 4b, formed by properly bending the strip', 4, the upraise having the inward side sloped for ready entering under the flange .of the roll,

and the outer side abrupt for engaging the inner side of the roll flange to withdraw it. rIlhe boss or button, @,is prominent enough to protrude through thethickness of the bottoni of the closure and the bottom of the box, so that it shall be substantially flush with the under side of the bottom of the box at engaged position, and the dimension of the button and aperture is sufficient to permit the finger of the operator to press the button up out of the aperture in the bottom of the tubular box member for disengaging it,` so that the closure may be withdrawn. For

the purpose of withdrawing the closure and at the same time checking its withdraw-al at the proper point for its swinging down to the position shown in Figure 2 for withdrawal of the roll, and hinging it to the box for such swinging, there is employed a fabric strip, 7, which is glued onto the under side of the closure with one end portion protruding as seen vat 7a, to constitute a lug for withdrawing the closure, and a portion at the other end looped back for engagement and securement of the end to the inner surface of the bottom side of the box. A suiicient length of the fabric strip comprised in the loop from the point or transverse line of securement ofthe strip to the bottoni ofthe box, extends from that line forward or outward to the open end of the box, so that when the closure is withdrawn to bring the inner end of its bottom side at the open end of the box,-that is, at the edge of the bottom side, as seen in Figure 2;,-'the`slack of the strip, 7, drawal will be' checked at that point. At this point also it will be seen that the flexible fabric strip constitutes a hinge between the will be taken up and the with closure and the box member, permitting the closure to swing down to roll-withdrawing position, as seen in Figure 2.

In order to make the fabric strip an effective hinge by preventing it from stripping 01T from the bottom of the closure as in the absence of preventing means it would readily do, a lug, 7b, is cut from the middle portion of the width extending inward with respect to the box from the line of the edge of the bottom side of the closure; and this lug is folded back around said edge of the closure bottom, and glued downonto the inner surface of said bottom where it is also clasped by the catch member, 4l, whose end, as stated, is clasped from above down and back around the said edge at the same place, passing through the fabric strip at the opening iiade by cutting and folding back the lug, b.

Preferably also, to prevent the lug end, 7a, of the fabric strip from being stripped off from the bottom of the closure, the end of the catch member which is folded as sta-ted to clasp the bottom of the closure, is extended forward under or outside of the forward bottom corner of the closure as seen in Figure 2. This necessitates a hole as seen at 4, in said extended end portion of the catch member, registering with the holes in the bottom side of the box and the bottom side of the reinforce.

The open end of this box is preferably reinforced to compensate for the lack of a head or closure at that end, by means of a metal reinforce, 9, formed to telescope snugly within the open end of the box and to admit the closure member to be telescoped through it. The only securement necessary for holding this reinforce in place is a little glue applied to its outer surfaces before it is inserted into the box end. It is convenient and desirable to utilize this reinforce, or at least the bottom side of it, for securing the end of the fabric strip, 7, at the place where it is above described as secured to the bottom side of the box member. F or this purpose the fabric strip having been glued to the bottom of the closure and the catch member passed into place clasping the bottom of the closure and the fabric strip thereon, the closure is inserted into the reinforce far enough to bring the forward edge of the bottom of the closure to the outer edge of the bottom side of the reinforce. The fabric strip extending on through the reinforce, its end portion extending beyond the further edge of the bottom side of the reinforce, is folded back under the latter and may be glued thereto. The assembled reinforce and closure are now introduced into the open end of the tubular box member, a little glue being preferably first applied to the outer surface of the reinforce, and the reinforce rear/,eci

is pushed in its entire length; thereupon the process of assembling is completed with the fabric strip measured in the process so that its slacl; properly checks the withdrawal and also the insertion of the closure.

Containers of this type being assembled in a pile as usual on the shelves of the merchant or the cabinet of the user, the mode of operation is that the operator takes hold of the protruding end, 7, of the fabric strip which serves as a strap lug, and by direct pull withdraws the box from the pile sufficiently to disclose at the under side the button, Al, the thumb and first finger being used in its withdrawal, and the second linger now reaching under the exposed end of the box, pushing the button in, disengages the closure, whereupon the further pull with the thumb and first linger upon the lug withdraws the closure from the box, so that it may drop down to the position shown in Figure 2, the roll having been withdrawn in the process, so that the end flange is exposed to be grasped by the hand of the operator to withdraw the roll from the box. For closing the box after restoring the roll, the box is lifted to horizontal position and pushed in, and the rear side of the button or boss, 4a', sloped as shown in the drawings so that it readily rides up over the outer edge of the bottom of the reinforce, snaps down into the aperture for complete engagement and locking of the closure.

l claim 1.111 combination with a tubular box open at one end, a telescoping closu're for the open end, having open top and one open end; means for holding the closure at closed position, consisting of a spring catch carried by the bottom side of the closure, having at one end a downwardly projecting boss, the said bottom side of the closure and the bottom side of the tubular box member having apertures registered at closed position of the closure for receiving the boss, said boss and apertures being of such dimensions that the boss may be thrust up out of the aperture in the box bottom by one linger of the operator; means for checking the withdrawal of the closure when the inner end of its bottom side is at the open end of the box, and forl hinging the closure to the box at that position, and means attached to the closure for pulling it out, positioned thereon for manual engagement simultaneously with thrusting in the boss for disengagement of the closure. v

2. ln the construction defined in claim l, foregoing, the catch spring having an upraise for engaging the flange of the roll for withdrawing it in the withdrawal of the closure. l

3. 1n the construction defined in claim l, foregoing, the hinge and withdrawing means being one continuous strip of fabric secured to the under side of the bottom of the closure and to the inner side of the bottom of the box.

4. In the construction defined in claim 1, foregoing, the open end of the tubular box member having an interior metal reinforce through which the closure telescopes, the hinge and withdrawal means being a continuous strip of fabric having one end engaged between the reinforce and the bottom side of the tubular box member, and folded back toward the open end of the box over said reinforce bottom side, and the other end portion secured on the under surface of the bottom side of the closure and projecting therebeyond at the outer end of manual engagement to withdraw the closure; the unengaged portion from the inner edge of the reinforce to the inner end of the closure bottom being substantially equal to the distance from said inner end of the reinforce back from the open end of the tubular box member.

5. In a telescopically closed box, in combination with the two telescoping members, a fiexible check-and-hinge strap having one end secured on the inner surface of the out/er telescoped member and the other end secured on the outer surface of the inner telescoped member, and having a lug cut from its width 'folded back onto the inner surface of said inner member.

6. In combination with the structure defined in cla-im 5, foregoing, a catch member on the inner telescoped part of the box, consisting of a metal strip folded to clasp the side of said inner telescoped part to which the check-and-hinge strap is secured at the point at which the lug is folded back onto the same; whereb7 the catch member secures the check-and-hinge strap.

In testimon whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at hicago, Illinois, this 1st day of September, 1921.

CHARLES S. lBURTON. 

